how to reformat floppies that have data on them
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Tue Apr 10 20:27:34 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 22:04 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> I can use dd to put data on a new formatted floppy, but how do I reuse an old
> floppy. I tried it on linux using dd, but got input/output errors, and even
> tried it on that other OS, but that couln't complete the format. I even tried
> reformatting an XP boot floppy on XP, and it couldn't complete the format.
>
> I'm a bit lost at the moment. I'd buy some new ones, but my supplier hasn't
> any available.
>
> I know floppies are legacy, but I have an old machine with my smoothwall
> firewall on it, and it can't boot from cdrom, so I need to remake the 2
> floppies that start off the install.
For an MS-DOS floppy,
#fdformat /dev/fd0H1440;mformat a:
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